Hello! I have captured some of my old video8 video material to my PC via mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=pal:input=1:fps=25:alsa:amode=1:audiorate=48000:width=768:h eight=576 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv:format=422p:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224" everything fine so far. (I got about 8-10 skipped frames for one hour of video material). Now it is where everything goes bad :-( I am trying to convert this material to some format that needs less space. mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video -o out.mpg in.avi gives me a skipped frame every 10 frames. To do the work I have used MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 on Gentoo. Is there anything obvious that I have done wrong? I have even tried this on an AMD and an Pentium4 machine. I have also tried using ac3 as an audio codec without any difference. Regards, Manuel